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Title: The Nile boat or, glimpses of the land of Egypt / by W.H. Bartlett
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Bartlett, W. H. (William Henry), 1809-1854
Subjects: Egypt -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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nists produced Plotinus andProclus. Monasteries were built all over Egypt; Chris-tian monks took the place of the pagan hermits, and theBible was translated into Coptic. A. D. 337. On the division of the Roman empire, Egypt fell to thelot of Constantinople. On the rise of the Arian con- 10 HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. troversy, the Egyptians belonged to the Athanasian party,while the Greeks of Alexandria were chiefly Arians.Hence a new cause of weakness to the government.Under Theodosius, Paganism and Arianism were for-bidden by law, the library was burnt by the Athanasians,and the last traces of science retreated from Alexandriabefore ignorance and bigotry. The country fell off everyyear in civilization, in population, and in strength ; andwhen the Arabs, animated by religion, and with all theyouth and vigour of a new people, burst forth upon theirneighbours, Egypt was conquered by the followers ofMahomet, a. d. 640, six hundred and seventy years afterit had been conquered by the Romans.
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CHAPTER I. DEPARTURE PROM MARSEILLES.—THE INDIA MAIL.—A SHIP RUN DOWN.—A GLANCEAT MALTA.—ALEXANDRIA.—ANCIENT AND MODERN CHARACTERISTICS.—PANO-RAMIC VIEW OF THE CITY.—ITS TOPOGRAPHY AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS. On a bright day in the month of June, 1845, I found myselfsafely berthed on board the government steamer, and sur-rounded by the busy panorama of Marseilles and its crowdedharbour. The time for our departure had expired, butsomething had detained the courier with the India mail, and re were becoming impatient, when boats were rapidly pushing through the crowded shipping. In one moment theywere recognised as bringing the object of our anxious expecta-tion, in the next all hands were active in hoisting it onboard, and in almost the next, the captains Go on an-nounced that we were ofF. Few persons at home have any ideaof the mass of correspondence thus conveyed : upwards of ahundred square boxes, carefully sealed and marked IndiaMail outward, were consigned to the hol

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